Reply to Ianus

Submitted by Seamus MacNemi (United States), May 6, 2007 at 23:05

Your words drip with your hatred and your contempt for the simple truth. I was born in war and I have lived in war all of my life and I am sick of it, as are all of my relatives near and far. I speak of MY FOLK. We are a reality and not some myth for you to play with. We are all related at length through marriage and by birth and we comprise a fair segment of the human race on this planet. True, we are not Jews, but that does not mean that we believe differently from the Jews. That we are successful in our endeavours is no matter of mere luck but it is the result of hard work and diligent study.

Your hatred put syou on a par with those who you hate and it is that hate that is the source of all of the evil in this world. Wars are not won by the defeat of an enemy but only through the winning of a friend.. My folk do not seek to rule over others but neither will we be ruled over. We will rule ourselves as we see fit and the Church be damned.

You may think you've done away with the clan system but that does not hold true for other folk. My family is my clan and my clan is my family and we will persist in our thinking as we do despite the modern world notions of some so called elite intellectuals.

Do you think you can excuse the church by blaming the Muslim? Who are you trying to convince anyway? Anti Semitism was endemic in the Christian community long before the advent of Islam and if there was any true source of antiSemitism in history it was the Christian Church. Christians killing Muslims, Jews, so called Pagans and anybody else who didn't buy into their idea of G-d. Accepting Jesus came to mean accepting tyrrany at the hands of a Christian/Roman/German/Russian/ Englishman, it makes no difference. They're all the same underneath.

Shabti Zvi? He was once a great and highly respected Rabbi. A Gaon in fact. His mistake was in indulging in Cabballa to the exclusion of all reason. It drove him quite mad. He began to lose all ability to discern right from left, up from down, night from day. He lived in an impossible dream world and tried to make it a reality in a world which was not yet ready. I can quite understand his predicament. That is what happens to anyone who hopes too much and who is too often hurt. I do not hate him as some do.

What is all this business of religious warfare any way? What is religion but a cloak that men put on to seem to make themselves presentable to G-D? G-d does not care for your religions or your for professions of piety. HE cares only for the quality of your living in the world. HE does not want you bowing and scraping at HIS knees. HE would rather you stand up like a man and be counted for the right. Shabti Zvi saw that much but he was born into a world which could not share his vision and he paid dearly for it.

You cannot make peace by perpetuating hatred. Continually calling up the demons of the past does no one any good. All that does is to cause those demons to live in the present. It is those demons we must defeat and not the poor benighted souls who are possesed by them.

Amalek the rodef, the pursuer. It seems that you have chosen to be my personal rodef, my personal Amalek.

You do not come to me as a friend but with your teeth bared in a snarl of contempt. That much is evident in your words. What do you seek to defend? What do you seek to prove? I see my words have provoked you which is what I had intended. But I wanted to provoke you to thought and prehaps reflection. Instead all you have to offer me is your anger. What a pity.

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